3/13/16

Give it your best

Are you moving closer to your goals?
Are you making excuses or making the effort?
Are you settling for a "just getting by" mentality?
Are you distracted by life yet constantly wish that you could stay more committed to your goals?
Are you willing to accept the time that is needed to reach your goals?
Do you find yourself procrastinating and then looking for quick results when you feel the pressure to make a change?
Are you putting in the work?

We all have our own reasons for training for an event, exercising more, eating better or making a change in life.

You get what you give.
In four days, Karel and I will be leading our 3rd annual Trimarni Clermont training camp. Although we expect our athletes to be tired and exhausted (especially with an Olympic distance triathlon race on the last day of camp), we also expect our athletes to give a great effort throughout camp.
Our campers understand exactly what they are in for at camp and because of this, they each come with a great "give it your best" attitude.

If you have never been to a training camp, I highly recommend to find the right camp for you and your fitness needs and goals and to participate in group training environment that is unlike anything you can experience alone or in your home environment.

One of the best training effects from a training camp is learning what it feels like to give a great effort without any (or minimal) life distractions.

Since training is not your life (unless you are a professional), you know you will have challenges in life that will keep you from training consistently.

Some athlete choose to minimize these distractions by making relationship or career changes or making other investments (hiring a coach, sport RD, sport psychologist, massage therapist, etc.). But depending on your goals and intentions for change, you don't have to change your life just to be great. You don't even have to be a world class athlete to be great!

The big takeaway is if you are constantly letting life interfere with your ability to give something your best effort, you will always fall short on reaching your full potential or reaching your goals.

Perhaps you interpret this statement as you needing to train more, be more strict with your diet or to make more sacrifices in life, but an extreme approach is not necessary if you want to receive positive results from your efforts.

I invite you to bring three words to your life:

ProactivePurposePresent

I repeatedly say these words to our athletes as they can really make the difference between an OK workout and a GREAT workout.

So how can you use these words when you are about to give an effort?

Proactive - focus on how you can set yourself up for great behaviors or actions. Perhaps planning your meals ahead of time, creating a great workout environment so it's easy for you to get in a workout even when you are busy or setting a schedule for yourself so that you feel rested and energized. If you constantly find yourself feeling guilty of something you did or didn't do, there is likely a barrier in your life that is keeping you from being more proactive. Plan for something before it happens.

Purpose - having a clear purpose will help you understand what you need to do to get to where you need to be. Having a purpose for how you train, why you do certain workouts, why you go to bed at a certain time, why you eat what you do, etc. will help you appreciate the steps that you are taking to reach the end result. When someone has a purpose for doing something, less excuses come about and actions are influenced by passion. If you don't truly love what you are doing, it's likely that you don't have a good or believable purpose for doing what you are doing. Rethink why you are doing something and if you can't find a clear purpose, perhaps your goals need to change.

Present - dwelling on the past or feeling anxious about the future will not help you in this moment in time. Wishing for a workout to be over so you can do something else or hating what you are eating are not the attitudes that you want to bring to your actions. Keep in mind that food choices, sleep habits, stress in your life and unclear goals can all contribute to not being present.
Don't let yourself get distracted when you are doing something and don't let someone else distract you from your personal journey.

Remember that your intentions for your goals may be different than someone else's. But don't doubt your ability to do something by comparing it to another person's actions.
Be willing to take some risks, don't be afraid to fail and don't let your ego (or self-doubt) keep you from giving a bit more effort.

If you want to accomplish something, you have to be willing to give it your best effort every single day.

The entire purpose of our training camps is to provide our athletes with a safe and motivating environment so that it is easier to give the effort that is hard to achieve at home.

This doesn't mean that our athletes are lazy or are not accomplishing workouts at home but I often find that athletes fail to realize their full athletic potential simply because the focus, time, energy, intent, purpose or attitude of achieving something is often difficult to do alone.

What we love about camp is that our athletes really get to know what it is like to give it your best.

Although a training camp can help you understand that you are capable of achieving so much more than you ever thought was possible, you shouldn't let a day go by without giving your best effort to whatever you are doing.

You can either choose to give it your best, just get by or believe you are not capable of achieving something.

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Welcome to Trimarni!

The Trimarni mission is to help athletes reach performance goals without compromising health.
Marni has a great understanding of physiology of the human body during exercise and how food affects a body in motion.
She focuses her time helping triathletes and runners learn how to maximize fitness while keeping the body in good health. Marni is well educated in the areas of sport nutrition (for training and racing) and triathlon coaching, exercise physiology and strength training, for athletes of all fitness levels. She specializes in endurance training and sport nutrition, with a great understanding of the metabolic, immune and hormonal stress that occurs when training for a long distance event. Behind every great athlete is a well planned diet - she also helps athletes create great daily nutrition habits to support consistent training.
Marni is passionate about helping athletes train smarter in order to reach performance, body composition and health goals faster.
Karel is an experienced RETUL bike fitter and bike mechanic and is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to all things bikes and cycling.
Marni and Karel coach a team of triathletes alongside providing services to triathletes, cyclists and runners.

About us

Marni holds a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology and she is a Board Certified Sport Dietitian who specializes in coaching and sport nutrition for endurance athletes. Marni is passionate about helping athletes of all levels learn how to fuel and eat to maximize performance, while keeping the body healthy. She is a 11x Ironman finisher including 4 Ironman World Championship finishes. In, 2015, Karel and Marni both competed in the 2015 IM World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Marni holds an Ironman PR of 10:06 (2016 Ironman Austria), where she had the fastest overall female swim time (57.06) and placed 2nd AG (30-34), finishing fastest amateur female American and 4th amateur female (10th overall female). Marni is a well-known writer and contributes frequently to Ironman, Triathlete Mag, USAT and can be found quoted in other publications like Runner's World, Shape, Women's Running, Fitness and Men's Health. Marni is enjoys public speaking and working one-on-one with athletes at camps and clinics. Marni is a long-time lacto-ovo vegetarian (since the age of 10) as she loves animals.

Karel is an accomplished Cat 1 cyclist turned Ironman triathlete. He was the former general manager of the Trek Bicycle store in Jacksonville, FL and now works at Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition as a coach and RETUL bike fit expert. Karel has successfully completed 6 Ironman distance triathlons and has qualified for the Ironman World Championship twice (in 2014 at IMWI and in 2016 at IMMT). He holds an Ironman PR of 9:13 (2016 IM Austria) and at 2016 Ironman Mont Tremblant, he clocked the fastest amateur male run split (3:08) of the day.

When Marni and Karel are not working, they can be found cooking/eating, exploring Greenville, SC or spending time with their four-legged furry child Campy.